Installation and Configuration Guide - Axceleon

E N F U Z I O N F O R R E N D E R F A R M S I N S T A L L A T I O N A N D C O N F I G U R A T I O N G U I D EThis guide, the EnFuzion3D v11 Installation and Configuration Guide, provides the information on how toaccomplish steps 1 and 2 in the table above. The EnFuzion3D v11 Plug-in Guide provides the information onsteps 3 and 4.2.5 How do I start?Axceleon strongly recommends that all first-time users of EnFuzion follow the steps below, start simple andgradually build up your EnFuzion render farm.Step 1: Set up a one-machine EnFuzion render farm, as shown in Figure 2-3. This machine willserve as a User Submit Computer, an EnFuzion Control Root Computer and an EnFuzionCompute Node at the same time.Figure 2-3: A one machine EnFuzion Render FarmStep 2: Set up the designated EnFuzion Control Root Computer for your render farm. Install andconfigure your real EnFuzion Control Root Computer.Figure 2-4: Install and configure an EnFuzion Control Root Computer.Step 3: Set up a typical EnFuzion render farm cluster by adding more User Submit Computers andEnFuzion Compute Nodes to the EnFuzion Control Root Computer which you set up earlier.If you are setting up a heterogeneous render farm, make sure you install the correct EnFuzion executable forthe machines running on different operating system platforms.5